This Podcast is Written in Pencil
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Rundown
0:50 There's Still So Much to Figure Out
5:19 The Universal DH is a Small Win for Players
9:12 What Do the Players Have to Give?
13:07 The Difficulty of Projecting Timetables to Start
18:20 The Fantasy Strategy Adjustments to Consider (So Far)
23:35 How Stretched Out Will Starters Be?
27:18 Adjusting Wins for 2020 Season
34:22 Judging Performance in a 60-Game Season
38:46 Injury Risk & Limited Info While Ramping Up
50:27 Peak Age for Pitchers
59:18 Listener Idea: A Lemonade League
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryls Episode 106. It is Tuesday, June 23rd. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. |
| 0:23.9 | On this episode, Major League Baseball is inching toward having a plan in place for the 2020 season. |
| 0:31.4 | We're going to discuss what the season is beginning to look like and how it could really all unravel before this episode even |
| 0:38.2 | sees the light of day. So, you know, I know this statement makes no sense, but this podcast |
| 0:43.9 | is written in pencil. Yeah, there's so much to be figured out. I had this idea to ask someone |
| 0:53.8 | if they'd actually even play spring |
| 0:55.7 | training games because most of the teams are going to go to their, I think most of them, but |
| 1:02.6 | not all of them, are going to go play in their home stadiums. So they don't really want to have |
| 1:09.4 | that much travel. |
| 1:11.6 | They've already talked about different ways to deal with travel. |
| 1:17.6 | And I don't know. |
| 1:21.6 | They don't know. |
| 1:22.6 | They don't know if they're going to play spring training games. |
| 1:25.6 | That seems like a fundamental thing. But hey, I mean, we're, I think, you know, the next text I had was strap in because we got to figure all this out really quick. |
| 1:35.5 | It worries me really with the health and safety, which maybe that's all been happening behind the scenes. |
| 1:42.1 | And that's been the least publicized part of all of this in recent weeks especially maybe a lot of care is being paid to that like maybe we'll know more sooner rather than later they did they did have some back and forth with plans when it came to you know how much testing |
| 2:02.1 | there would be and that you know and uh you know how much uh like could they shower at the |
| 2:08.5 | like it ended up being about the sort of regular day-to-day stuff where players kind of wanted |
| 2:16.2 | to be able to shower at the park. |
| 2:19.7 | Yeah, like there was a pretty detailed plan that was put out there, |
| 2:23.4 | but it's just been so quiet about the health and safety. |
| 2:27.4 | That just hasn't been where the conversation has been. |
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